Add API to gets system load average information

[giampaolo]

From tiran79 on December 08, 2010 01:54:38

Neither Python nor psutil has an API to get the current system load average as 
shown by tools like top. On Linux it's easy to retrieve the current load 
through /proc/loadavg, see http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_loadavg.html I've 
attached a patch with a simple implementation of get_load_average()

Attachment: simple_loadavg.patch

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=139

[giampaolo]

From philip.z...@gmail.com on December 07, 2010 18:31:29

No opinion on the patch, but python does have this as of 2.3. 
http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.getloadavg $ python
Python 2.6.6 ( r266 :84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.getloadavg()
(1.52, 1.6399999999999999, 1.5700000000000001)

[giampaolo]

From tiran79 on December 07, 2010 18:37:21

Oh, you are right ...

I'm currently in the process of replacing custom code with psutil. Some of my 
code is really, really old and predates Python 2.3. I rolled my own 
implementation of getloadavg() using /proc/loadavg many years ago and never 
checked if the os module has grown an official implementation.

Please dismiss my feature request.

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on December 07, 2010 18:46:31

Closing out as won't fix. 
Thanks for the inputs btw. New ideas are always welcome.

Status: WontFix
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement OpSys-UNIX

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 03:57:20

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r266 == revision 
f910f2f333cc